Non-refillable bottle.



No. 680,405. Patented Aug. 13, |90|. W. H. AARON.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

(Applicatipn filed m 1: 1901.\

(No Model.)

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NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,405, dated August13, 1901.

Application filed May 13, 1901. Serial No. 60,071- (No model.)

To ctZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. AARON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Stockton, in the county of San Joaquin and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Non-RefillableBottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in non-refillable bottles; and itconsists in acertain peculiar construction, the novelty, utility, andadvantages of which will be fully understood from the followingdescription and claim when taken in connection with the annexeddrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a diametrical section of the upperportion of a bottle equipped with my improvements, the cylindrical coreof the latter being shown in elevation. Fig. 2 is a similar view withthe cylindrical core as well as the upper portion of the bottle indiametrical section. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the implement employedto force the rubber ball-valve em braced in my improvements to its seat.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A is a bottle, comprising theusual body a and neck I), and B is the cylindrical core, which formspart of my improvements. The said core, which may be made of glass orany other material suitable to the purpose, is of a diameter to snuglyfit in the neck I) and is fixedly secured thereto by cement or any othersuitable means. It is provided about the proportional distanceillustrated above its lower end with a concave valve-seat c and is alsoprovided with a passage d, which leads from said seat and communicateswith the interior of the body of the bottle, and a spiral passage 6,which starts at about the distance illustrated above the valve-seat andextends to the upper end of the core. The spiral passage e'is designedfor the introduction of a rubber ballvalve 0 to the seat 0 and is of aWidth less than the diameter of the ball, this in order to preclude theremoval of the ball from the chamber fabove the valve-seat. The passagee is also designed to permit of the free flow of liquid from the bottle,and in order to accelerate such flow when the bottle is inverted thecore is provided in the edge of one of its spiral whirls with anair-vent g, as best shown in Fig. 1.

In the practice of my invention the core B is secured in the neck of thebottle in the position illustrated, and the bottle is then filled, afterwhich the ball O is crowded, with the aid of the spiral implement D,down through the spiral passage 6 and into the chamberf above thevalve-seat c. When the ball-valve is in the said chamber f and thebottle is inverted to pour its contents, the valve will fall away fromits seat and permit of a free flow of liquid from the interior of thebottle through the passage-d, chamber f, and passage e, and out of themouth of the bottle.- When, however, the bottle is held in an upright orapproximately upright position with a View of refilling same, theball-Valve will return to its seat and securely close the pas sage d,and thereby effectually prevent liquid from entering the interior of thebody of the bottle.

The core B is preferably of such length as to extend from the base ofthe neck of the bottle to a point adjacent to the upper end thereof, andordinarily a stopper E is employed to close the upper end or mouth ofthe bottle and prevent evaporation of its contents.

It will be readily appreciated from the foregoing that when my improvedcore B and ball- Valve O are placed and secured in the neck of anordinary bottle after the manner described they are calculated toconvert said bottle into a highly efficient and reliable non-refillablebottle. It will also be appreciated that the core and ball-valve areeasy of production, and consequently cheap, and also that they areadapted to be quickly and easily placed and secured in the bottle-neck.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

The combination of the bottle, the core snugly arranged and secured inthe neck thereof and having the concave valve-seat at an intermediatepoint of its length, the passage 01 leading downwardly from said seatand connecting the same with the interior of the body of the bottle, thechamber f above the Valve-seat, the spiral passage 6 extending upwardlyfrom said chamber f, and the air-vent g arranged in the edge of one ofthe whirls forming the spiral passage, and the rubber ball-valvearranged in the chamber f of the my hand in presence of twosubsoribingkvitcore; said valve being of a diameter greater nesses. 7than the Width of the spiral passa e e whereby it may be crowded throughthe-passage to the WILLIAM AARON' 5 chamber f but cannot be drawnoutwardly \Vitnesses:

through said passage.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set L. H. CUTTING, FRANCIS CUTTING.

